Had a lot of time to read this weekend and have made a lot of progress in the book. I am really enjoying and finding it hard to put down. Lots of unexpected things happening. The characters are all so well developed. Definitely looking forward to finishing this one. I bought the other three paperbacks on amazon as well.

Just finished Game of Thrones. Really, really liked it. It starts a bit slow but really picks up as the book goes on. I was surprised by all the twists and turns. Really well done. I've got the other 3 books in the queue now. I may take my time reading them given how long he seems to wait to finish the next book now

If you read some of the commentary out there about why it took so long him to complete Dragons it sort of makes sense. (SPOILERS)He wrote himself into a huge corner(SPOILERS) and had to find his way out and didn't know how. It will certainly be interesting to see what happens and while Crows was sort of a dissapointment, I am looking very much forward to Dragons. I would expect with the TV show and the hype that the next two books will not take nearly as long.

I was SERIOUSLY tempted to pick up the new book today. Instead, I opted to pick up a paperback multi-pack of the first 4 novels. I'm about 400 pages through A CLASH OF KINGS, and I'm going to start A STORM OF SWORDS as soon as I'm done with the second book. Plus, I'm probably going to go back and read the first book since I only have the HBO series as a reference.

Every time I stop by a book store I am more and more tempted to pick up the hard cover of A Dance of Dragons. But then I realize that I'm only about 400 pages into A Storm of Swords, and I think better of it. I suppose I can hold off once I get about halfway through book 4.